I wrote this back as an assignment for my Creative Writing class my Junior year. I haad a lot of fun with this one and I hope you guys like it. Enjoy!
Who I Am
I am me not you
not anyone.
I dream of a life that is mine
to control and not others.
I create whole worlds with my pen
when I write.
In Sleeping Beauty’s castle
the clock strikes one hundred years
and the girl in the tower returns to the
world.
Is that what I am?
Sleeping Beauty awakening after
one hundred years?
I am no princess and no damsel
in distress.
I love who I am
not what my parents try
to make me.
I live in a world where everything round is good:
the sun, wheels, cookies, and the princess.
But still I love who I am
no matter what anyone says.
Angels are pure and sweet
not evil or unkind.
I pointed to a place where kids had made angels in the snow.
For some reason, I told him that a troop of angels
had been shot and dissolved before they hit the ground.
Maybe I shot them for
coming into my world
of imagination.
I imagine life differently
for me.
I imagine me stepping
into the sun.
Then wants to go out into the world
where she leaps lightly and for no apparent reason across the lawn,
then sits, perfectly still, in the grass.
I feel this way
almost everyday.
I want a life to myself
that no one else can control.
I want to create a world
that only I know exists.
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